I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

Calvin: Why are you crying mom?Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.-Calvin

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

You are already the awakeness that you seek!

The prayer of a righteous man avails much

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.